The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation panabo carving out a home and

carving out a home and a career in a place far from just about everyone

As the pain and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood

formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places

and uncle Charlie

The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation panabo carving out a home andConfronting the truths of Canadas Indian Residential School system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant. In this book, David B. MacDonald uses genocide as an analytical tool to better understand Canadas past and present relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples. Starting with a discussion of how genocide is defined in domestic and international law, the book applies the concept to the forced transfer of Indigenous children to